Great Lakes - geography.

Great Lakes - geography. Great Lakes of Africa The Great Lakes of East Africa occupy a region where the Earth's crust is breaking apart along two rift valleys (see Rift Valleys Map Trek). In the Eastern Rift Valley lies saltwater Lake Turkana. In the Western Rift Valley lie Lakes Albert, Edward, Kivu, and Tanganyika. The valleys merge to the south in the basin of Lake Malawi. At the edges of these ...